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irstupid on 10 April 2018
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SpokenTruth said:
irstupid said:

Or you mean how it was reported that 800,000 people marched in the "March for our LIves", when it was actually only 200,000?

And how only like 10% of them were kids, most were adults.

1. That's also an estimate and not the official count.

2. Organizers planned for 500,000.  So even if it were just 200,000, that's only a difference of 40%.  This rally looks like 1% of the estimated 30,000. 

3. Was that supposed to be a kids only event?  I don't get what you're trying to suggest a 10:1 ratio of adult to student is somehow negative.  In fact, that should tell you that this whole "kids are too young to talk gun policy" notion a moot point.  Looks likes adults are just as welcoming of talking about sensible gun control as they are. 

The point was that he made a crack about Trump inflating numbers.

THe EVENT that I posted planned for 500,000, stated in a tweet that 800,000 people showed up. Media reports ran that story, yet multiple experts and analysts put the number between 180,000-210,000.

The point of the kids/adult ratio was because the event is touted as "the American youth standing up and we need to listen to them"

10% of the people being under 18 probably isn't that much of a difference between any of the other random rally's/protest's that have happened since trump took office. So it comes off as just more of the same people protesting and not something new.